USC’s secondary shines in spring game showcase A new-and-improved group records 4 INTs and Lincoln Riley provides clarity on competitive Trojans’ QB situation Running back A’Marion Peterson (22) is swarmed by the defense during the USC spring football game Saturday, April 20, 2024, at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG) Luca Evans (OC Register)  —  LOS ANGELES — Windows are shut now, seams downfield tightening in front of quarterbacks’ very eyes, a development that could open a new door of opportunity for USC football in the Lincoln Ri ..read more

USC spring football game preview: Breakout candidates and what to watch Look for Kameryn Fountain, Marcelles Williams and Kyron Hudson to make a big impact Saturday at the Coliseum Trojan QBs Jake Jensen #17 and Moss Miller #7 during spring practice at Howard Jones Field on the USC campus on Thursday, April 11, 2024. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG) Luca Evans (OC Register)  —  LOS ANGELES — A glint sparkled in Jacobe Covington’s eye when asked about USC’s new secondary schemes Thursday, a mischievous smirk creeping from the corners of his mouth. “We got a li ..read more

In crowded USC cornerback competition, transfer DeCarlos Nicholson feels at home DeCarlos Nicholson during warmups before a MISS ST game against EAST TENN ST in Nov. 2022. (Rogelio V. Solis / AP) Ryan Kartje (LA Times)  —  Until Lincoln Riley was standing in his living room, late one night last December, DeCarlos Nicholson (#17 at USC) hadn’t given much serious consideration to leaving Mississippi. He’d spent his entire life in the state. His family lived there. His son had been born there. Everything he knew was within a few hundred miles radius of Hattiesburg. But now here was&n ..read more

Q&A: USC’s Lindsay Gottlieb wants ‘the premier program in the country’ The superior Trojan women’s basketball coach discusses the program’s trajectory, its incoming class and the growth of phenom JuJu Watkins Lindsay Gottlieb talks with Trojan players during a timeout in the second half of their game against Le Moyne on Nov. 13, 2023, at the Galen Center. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Luca Evans (OC Register)  —  LOS ANGELES — A few days ago, JuJu Watkins walked into Lindsay Gottlieb’s office like a different person. At the beginning of April, she’d broken down in tears at the post ..read more

USC DB Marcelles Williams not looking like a freshman The upstart cornerback is a constant reminder of his older brother and former Trojan Max Williams St. John Bosco’s Marcelles Williams announces he’s USC-bound during National Signing Day on Dec. 20, 2023, in Bellflower. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) Aaron Heisen (OC Register)  —  For brief instances, Lincoln Riley has to remind himself that the feeling is really just déjà vu. That defensive back Max Williams has, in fact, played his final snap for the Trojans. And that this freshman, with the same last name, th ..read more

Toy Story Super Fan Jo’Quavious ‘Woody’ Marks finds perfect fit at USC New Trojan/former MISS ST RB Jo’Quavious Marks (7) dodges SO CAR DE Tyreek Johnson (10) on Sept. 23 in Columbia, S.C. (Artie Walker Jr. / AP) Ryan Kartje (LA Times)  —  Tameka Marks just wanted to buy her youngest son a Halloween costume. She had no idea, at the time, what she was committing to. All she knew was that Jo’Quavious, who was in preschool, loved Toy Story. Especially Woody, the toy cowboy leading man. So she bought him a Woody costume — with a signature hat, cowhide vest and boots — and nearly two d ..read more

Football/media star O.J. Simpson, who became a famous mug shot for domestic violence and a double murder charge, has died of cancer Oct. 1995  — O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles. Defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. surround him. (Myung J. Chun / Pool) Elaine Woo (LA Times)  —  O.J. Simpson, whose rise and fall from American football hero to accused murderer to prison inmate fueled a rancorous public drama that obsessed the nation and spawned de ..read more

Is USC prepared for NIL floodgates opening and no NCAA restrictions? USC and donor collective House of Victory’s cautious approach to NIL waters have left several families of current players disillusioned, but one Tennessee injunction could change everything #10 WR Kyron Hudson before USC vs STAN at the Coliseum in L.A. on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG) Luca Evans (OC Register)  —  LOS ANGELES — The extra 18 pounds pop off Marquis Gallegos’ shoulders, the safety’s frame once reed-thin a matter of months ago at Sierra Canyon High befo ..read more

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